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A hall monitor at Elk Grove High School was being held Thursday in Cook County Jail after police allegedly found sexually explicit photos of young children on his home computer. Douglas I. Scott, 32, of 907 Lincoln Square, Elk Grove Village, faces one count of possession of child pornography. He resigned Thursday from his job at the high school. Elk Grove Village police said the pornography was downloaded from the Internet. "We don't believe he had any hand in producing any of (the photos)

Three unidentified young men who say they were abused by Daniel McCormack, a defrocked Catholic priest who in 2007 pleaded guilty to several counts of criminal sexual assault, each filed separate lawsuits Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court. The suits named the Catholic bishop of Chicago, the Archdiocese of Chicago and Cardinal Francis George. It claims that they were negligent in allowing McCormack, who as of last month was confined in a mental health facility after his guilty plea, to work with young boys unsupervised when they knew or should have known that he had a history of sexually abusing minors.

Anas M. Luqman, 77, a former independent distributor for Johnson Publications in the 1960s, managed the sales of Jet Magazine by young boys on the "L" trains, buses and street corners of Chicago. A resident of South Shore, he died Jan. 30 at home. "No one was paying any attention to these young boys until he did," said his wife, V. Habibah. "He taught them a sense of business. He would take them to the bank, have them meet its president and start bank accounts there. He was also very strong in emphasizing education."

A Chicago man was sentenced Friday to 33 months in prison for receiving child pornography in the mail. His arrest had been part of a nationwide sting operation. Robert Ellison, 63, said in a confession that, because his pornography had been taken from him by authorities, he was afraid he might go looking for young boys. U.S. District Judge James Holderman ordered that for three years after his release from prison, Ellison have no contact with anyone under age 18 and possess no toys or weapons.

A Canadian schoolteacher who has become the world's most wanted suspected pedophile was arrested by police Friday in northeastern Thailand, officials said. Christopher Paul Neil, 32, was hiding in the home of a Thai friend who police believe may have arranged some of his alleged sexual liaisons with young boys. Neil was arrested in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima and was being driven to Bangkok, about 130 miles away, police Maj. Gen. Wimol Powintara said. Thai authorities determined that he may have abused boys in Thailand, in addition to the dozen Cambodian and Vietnamese boys whom Interpol suspects he abused.

Bail was set Thursday at $100,000 after prosecutors upgraded charges against a former DeKalb man accused of taking improper photos of a 10-year-old in a Schaumburg video-game store. Cortez A. Lewis, 27, has been charged with felony unlawful restraint, prosecutors said. Lewis was arrested July 17 by Schaumburg police on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and criminal damage to property. Those charges were dropped after Judge Thomas Fecarotta Jr. approved the felony count at a hearing in the Rolling Meadows branch of Cook County Circuit Court.

A 70-year-old Rolling Meadows man who was facing charges of sexually abusing young boys he was tutoring this summer has died. Howard Mehn, 70, died earlier this week of a heart attack, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office reported. Until accusations surfaced in July that Mehn had inappropriately touched young boys through their clothing, he was well-known in the Rolling Meadows community and Palatine Elementary School District 15 as a tutor helping youngsters to improve their reading skills.

Illinois state police investigators arrested an Episcopal priest Wednesday on two warrants charging him with criminal sexual abuse for allegedly abusing several young boys in the Lockport area, police said. Rev. Curtis D. Williams, 47, who was for six years the vicar at St. John's Episcopal Church, 326 E. 11th St., Lockport, was arrested in Wichita, Kan., on the warrants issued in Will County, officials said. Father Williams left St. John's on Oct. 30, 1984, according to Rev. Wayne Hanson.

A 46-year-old unemployed computer operator was charged Tuesday with illegal possession of child pornography after undercover detectives seized hundreds of photographs depicting young boys engaged in sex acts. Dennis Rangel, 5415 W. Carmen Ave., also was charged with illegal possession of cocaine and failure to register a gun, according to Detective Brian Killacky of the Belmont Area youth division's special investigations unit. Rangel was arrested near his home after he delivered about 25 alleged pornographic magazines to Killacky, Detective Jack Campione and Sgt. Edward Paige.